Pageflakes, an Ajax home page service that originally launched in Germany in late 2005, has been acquired by Los Angeles based Live Universe, sources tell us. The deal has not yet been announced, and both Live Universe and Pageflakes refuse to comment.

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Windows/Mac: Embed your favorite web widgets into the desktop with freeware app Hypercube. Hypercube supports several widget platforms including iGoogle, Pageflakes, Google Video, and YouTube.

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Last week the personalized start page Pageflakes announced its latest version, nicknamed Blizzard. It introduces social networking functionality, themes, a slick Ajax UI, and more.

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14 Personalized Start Pages Compared

We learned this week that Pageflakes is adding a social network, which seems to be the next evolution of the start page concept. Meanwhile, Facebook is looking increasingly like a startpage.

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The fragmentation of widget platforms presents a problem for developers, who need to develop and then maintain different versions of widgets for the various desktop widget platforms (Vista, Mac, Google, Yahoo) as well as online platforms like Pageflakes and Netvibes (and lots of  …

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Webwag - A Really Cool Start Page With Support For Netvibes and Google IG Widgets

I have to admit something: I never really "got" the AJAX start pages. It just never did anything for me. I used Google IG for a while, and used Protopage for a couple of weeks, but mostly, I just set my browser to Wikipedia's Random Page. But one day, I saw a link to Webwag.

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Reviews & ratings of Ajax based websites. Good article. Short & makes its point quickly.

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